Firm Biographies

J. D. Obenberger

Starting from the representation of brick and mortar adult
book
stores, gentlemen's clubs and other Adult businesses in the Chicago
area in 1994, JD Obenberger has developed an outstanding national and
international reputation for representing the interests of the online
entertainment community, the Chicago Adult Entertainment community, and he is an advocate of Liberty in general. He
has worked to the advantage of his clients at every step of government
attack, from aggressive and vigorous intervention during the execution of a federal search
warrant through its final successful outcome and in other cases from charges to trial; He
successfully litigated the Mike Jones criminal obscenity case obtaining a dismissal on all charges, and has
achieved favorable results in other
obscenity prosecutions and federal law enforcement raids based
on obscenity. XXXLAW
has represented numerous clients in North America, Europe, and the
Pacific Rim, providing services in all of the legal issues confronting
the webmaster and content producer: The defense of content producers
and retailers accused of obscenity, copyright infringement and right to
privacy representation, domain name disputes, and content reviews of
adult megasites are regular parts of its practice area. He has
practiced before the United States Trademark Appeals Board.

In America
Unzipped,
author Brian Alexander writes that Attorney J.D. Obenberger may be the
most vociferous champion of the Adult Industry in the United States.
J.D. Obenberger is a popular worldwide speaker on issues of adult
internet law and regulation, having spoken 72 times since 2000 before
thousands of adult webmasters and content producers in the United
States, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Holland, and Costa Rica, in
ten
American states and in three Canadian provinces. He is the author of
"Pleasureboating on the River Rubicon", published in hardcover during
2007 by the Thompson-West Publishing Company in its anthology, Online
Pornography. He has written frequently, for over a decade, for AVN
Online, XBIZ World, Klixxx, Adult Store Buyer and other adult Industry
periodicals and trade sites. He is deeply committed to personal liberty
and privacy from
the interference of government in the spirit of the American
Constitution, and in the American political tradition. His personal
heroes include Barry Goldwater.

He
is a former Army Officer, was elected Municipal Alderman twice and Mayor Pro Tem
once, elected Republican Committeeman three times in two states, and
taught college. A long and interesting journey took him to the
representation of adult interests - and all of it uniquely prepared him
for this role.

J. D. Obenberger is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin
Law
School (J.D., 1979), the United States Army Judge Advocate General's
School (1979), and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (1986).

He was decorated for
distinction as a
criminal defense lawyer while a Captain of the US Army Judge Advocate
General's Corps and was undefeated when he brought cases on behalf of
the United States as a prosecutor. While a Captain in
the Army JAG Corps, he lived in Germany for three years, and speaks
fair conversational German. He has taught trial tactics to the
attorneys of the United States Army Trial Defense Service. He taught
Political Science for Central
Texas College (1982). He often provides commentary in television and
print media on issues affecting online communications and has been
quoted by the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Wired, AVN Online,
XBIZ, YNOT News, Klixxx and numerous other publications, and has been a
guest on The
O'Reilly Factor. He is a frequently-contributing "expert" in the field of Adult Film Making at allexperts.com.

He is an active member of The First Amendment
Lawyer's
Association
and the Free Speech Coalition. He has handled a wide variety of
criminal cases, ranging from obscenity to conspiracy, aggravated
kidnapping, forgery and drug cases, both as a prosecutor and as defense
counsel, at trial and on appeal, and in locations as geographically
diverse as Brownsville, Texas, Vicenza, Italy, and throughout Germany.
He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the
United States Courts of Appeal for the Federal Circuit and the Seventh
Cirucuit, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western
Districts of Wisconsin, the Northern District of Illinois (admitted to
its Trial Bar),
The United States Court of Military Appeals, and the Supreme Court of
Illinois.

His passions out of the office include photography and short wave radio.

Obenberger is a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association and the American Legion.

Joe Obenberger can be reached in the office at (312) 558-6420. He can be emailed at obiwan@xxxlaw.net. He can be Skyped at xxxlaw.

Reed Lee

Reed
Clayton Lee has been practicing law for more than twenty-five years and
concentrating on free expression matters for well over fifteen years.

His free expression work has involved representation of
clients
ranging from political activists of widely varying points of view to
those who produce and disseminate sexually oriented expression. Reed
has written Amicus Briefs at the Supreme Court of the United States and
has argued numerous appeals both in the appeals courts of the State of
Illinois and the federal courts, including the United States Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals.

He has represented clients in both civil and criminal matters,
and -
in the civil cases - he has represented those seeking affirmative
relief against threatened government action as well as those defending
against proceedings the government has brought. In all free expression
and related cases, though, he has represented the free speech
claimants, that is, those who faced trouble with some government agency
because of what they had to say or publish or what they wanted to read,
see, or hear.

He has acted as defense counsel in criminal obscenity jury
trials, with the late Michael Null, involving both live performances
and videotapes. Along with J.
D. Obenberger, he has defended obscenity cases in both Illinois and
Louisana that successfully terminated before trial.

He attended law school at Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland, Ohio and did his undergraduate work at the University of
Illinois at Chicago.

Mr. Lee is an active member of the First Amendment Lawyers'
Association and the Constitutional Law Committee of the Chicago Bar
Association. He is a former President of the First Amendment Lawyers'
Association and a member of its Board and he is a member of the Board
of Directors of the Free
Speech Coalition, the adult industry's trade organization, and its
Litigation Committee.

In connection with the defense of free expression, he has
defended
clients against condemnation of real property by government authority
and has handled for them a wide array of commercial and corporate
matters in litigation. Fighting City Hall - and getting good results -
has been part of Reed's life for decades. He successfully brought a
civil rights action
against the County of DuPage in Unied States District Court, obtained
summary judgment including the award of attorney's fees,
successfully
argued the subsequent appeal to the Seventh Circuit, and successfully
argued against Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States. By
that successful litigation, he secured the right of our clients to open
and operate the the first lawfully permitted Adult Use in DuPage
County, Diamond's. It was necessary in that litigation to overcome
arguments made - seriously - by the County that the Club would imperil
the animals in a portion of a Forest Preserve not open to public
recreation, and that its existence might adversely affect the students
in school busses traveling along Illinois Highway 64 on field trips, en
route to the more distant parts of the Forest Preserves actually open
to recreation. Seriously.

Reed Lee is admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme
Court,
the United States Courts of Appeal for the Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth
Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern
District of Wisconsin, the Eastern District of Michigan, and the
Northern District of Illinois. He is also admitted before the Illinois
Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Reed Lee can be reached in the office at (312) 558-6427. His email address is reedlee@xxxlaw.net.